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During the COP 15 summit in Copenhagen, from 7th to 18th of December 2009, noborders will profide convergence space and participate on several actions. A noborders action day related to the climate issues will take palce on 14th Dec 2009.

On Saturday 28th November 2009, French and British solidarity activists staged a cross-channel protest from Calais to Folkestone. Transnational protest against the border regime and against the collaboration between the French and the British authorities.

The Greek island of Lesvos is just a short sail from the Turkish coast - you can see Turkey from the island. Here many migrants try crossing into Europe, usually on inflatable boats. Frontex patrols the coast to prevent them from landing; those who land may be detained in one of the most appalling prisons for migrants we have ever seen or heard of.

This interview was made shortly after the No Borders camp in Calais and published in Shift Magazine. We make it available online now to inform ongoing action in the region after the first mass raids on the jungles.

The No Border camp in Lesvos is scoring some real victories for the migrants who arrive here and are detained in horrific conditions in the infamous Pagani detention centre following the release of over two hundred migrants.

With the burning and clearing of the main migrant camp in Patras, Greece, it seems there is a Europe-Wide attack on those without the luck to have a EU-Passport. On Tuseday next week the make-shifts camp whoch the migrants have built in calais are to be destroyed.

In Calais industrial area, along the 'petite rue du Pont Trouille', you will find a small piece of Afghanistan. About 400 Afghans Pachtoun settled there in 2009 and founded a mini-Kabul with its mosque made of plastic and its grocer shops made of palettes.

Last weekend groups from France and the UK including people involved in the UK NoBorders Network agreed in a meeting in Lille to organise transnational Noborder Camp in Calais, France, which will be held in the last week of June 2009.